1 Setup

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
  library(data.table)
  library(DESeq2)
  library(gplots)
  library(here)
  library(hyperSpec)
  library(parallel)
  library(pander)
  library(plotly)
  library(tidyverse)
  library(tximport)
  library(vsn)
  library(zinbwave)
  library(Rtsne)
})
source(here("UPSCb-common/src/R/featureSelection.R"))
hpal <- colorRampPalette(c("blue","white","red"))(100)
samples <- read_csv(here("doc/samples_final.csv"))
## Parsed with column specification:
## cols(
##   ScilifeID = col_character(),
##   SubmittedID = col_character(),
##   Stages = col_character(),
##   Description = col_character(),
##   ID = col_character()
## )

2 Raw data

filelist <- list.files(here("data/Salmon"), 
                          recursive = TRUE, 
                          pattern = "quant.sf",
                          full.names = TRUE)

Sanity check to ensure that the data is sorted according to the sample info

filelist <- filelist[match(samples$ScilifeID,sub("_sortmerna.*","",basename(dirname(filelist))))]

stopifnot(all(match(sub("_sortmerna.*","",basename(dirname(filelist))),
                    samples$ScilifeID) == 1:nrow(samples)))

name the file list vector

names(filelist) <- samples$ID

Read the expression at the gene level

counts <- suppressMessages(round(tximport(files = filelist, 
                                  type = "salmon",
                                  txOut=TRUE)$counts))

combine technical replicates

samples$ID <- sub("_L00[1,2]", "",
                  samples$ScilifeID)
counts <- do.call(
  cbind,
  lapply(split.data.frame(t(counts),
                          samples$ID),
         colSums))

csamples <- samples[,-1]
csamples <- csamples[match(colnames(counts),csamples$ID),]

read the expression for the pool of lincRNAs we found

linc_read <- read_delim("~/Git/lncRNAs/doc/time_expression_nc_filtered.tsv",
                        delim = " ")
## Parsed with column specification:
## cols(
##   Transcript.ID = col_character(),
##   score = col_double(),
##   S1 = col_double(),
##   S2 = col_double(),
##   S3 = col_double(),
##   S4 = col_double(),
##   S5 = col_double(),
##   S6 = col_double(),
##   S7 = col_double(),
##   S8 = col_double(),
##   maxn = col_double(),
##   n = col_double(),
##   peak = col_character()
## )
linc <- linc_read$Transcript.ID

counts <- counts[linc, ]

2.1 Quality Control

  • Check how many genes are never expressed
sel <- rowSums(counts) == 0
sprintf("%s%% percent (%s) of %s genes are not expressed",
        round(sum(sel) * 100/ nrow(counts),digits=1),
        sum(sel),
        nrow(counts))
## [1] "0% percent (0) of 147984 genes are not expressed"
  • Let us take a look at the sequencing depth, colouring by Stages
dat <- tibble(x=colnames(counts),y=colSums(counts)) %>% 
  bind_cols(csamples)

ggplot(dat,aes(x,y,fill=csamples$Stages)) + geom_col() + 
  scale_y_continuous(name="reads") +
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=90,size=4),axis.title.x=element_blank())

  • Display the per-gene mean expression

i.e. the mean raw count of every gene across samples is calculated and displayed on a log10 scale.

The cumulative gene coverage is as expected, considering we have lincRNAs, caracterised by a really low signal.

ggplot(data.frame(value=log10(rowMeans(counts))),aes(x=value)) + 
  geom_density() + ggtitle("gene mean raw counts distribution") +
  scale_x_continuous(name="mean raw counts (log10)")

The same is done for the individual samples colored by Stages.

dat <- as.data.frame(log10(counts)) %>% utils::stack() %>% 
  mutate(Stages=csamples$Stages[match(ind,csamples$ID)])

ggplot(dat,aes(x=values,group=ind,col=Stages)) + 
  geom_density() + ggtitle("sample raw counts distribution") +
  scale_x_continuous(name="per gene raw counts (log10)")
## Warning: Removed 2743771 rows containing non-finite values (stat_density).

2.2 Export

dir.create(here("data/analysis/salmon"),showWarnings=FALSE,recursive=TRUE)
write.csv(counts,file=here("data/analysis/salmon/raw-unormalised-gene-expression_data_linc.csv"))

3 Data normalisation

3.1 Preparation

For visualization, the data is submitted to a variance stabilization transformation using DESeq2. The dispersion is estimated independently of the sample tissue and replicate.

csamples$Stages <- factor(csamples$Stages)

there are a lot of zeros, so we use zinbwave

se <- SummarizedExperiment(assays=list(counts=as.matrix(counts)),
                           colData=as.data.frame(csamples))

zinb <- zinbwave(se,K=0,epsilon=1e12,
                 X="~Stages",
                 observationalWeights=TRUE)

save(zinb,file=here("data/analysis/salmon/zinb.rda"))

Check the size factors (i.e. the sequencing library size effect)

dds <- DESeqDataSet(zinb,design=~Stages)
## converting counts to integer mode
dds <- DESeq(dds, 
             sfType = "poscounts", 
             useT = TRUE, 
             minmu = 1e-6)
## estimating size factors
## estimating dispersions
## gene-wise dispersion estimates
## Warning in getAndCheckWeights(object, modelMatrix, weightThreshold = weightThreshold): for 7311 row(s), the weights as supplied won't allow parameter estimation, producing a
##   degenerate design matrix. These rows have been flagged in mcols(dds)$weightsFail
##   and treated as if the row contained all zeros (mcols(dds)$allZero set to TRUE).
##   If you are blocking for donors/organisms, consider design = ~0+donor+condition.
## mean-dispersion relationship
## final dispersion estimates
## fitting model and testing
save(dds,file=here("data/analysis/salmon/dds_linc.rda"))

3.2 Variance Stabilising Transformation

vsd <- varianceStabilizingTransformation(dds, blind=TRUE)
vst <- assay(vsd)
vst <- vst - min(vst)
save(vst,file=here("data/analysis/DE/vst-blind_linc.rda"))

3.3 Variance Stabilising Transformation

vsda <- varianceStabilizingTransformation(dds, blind=FALSE)
vsta <- assay(vsda)
vsta <- vsta - min(vsta)
save(vsta,file=here("data/analysis/DE/vst-aware_linc.rda"))

# prepare the data to build the network
#ID <- rownames(vsta)
#vsta <- cbind(ID,vsta)
#vsta_tibble <- as_tibble(vsta)
#write_tsv(vsta_tibble,path=here("data/analysis/DE/vst-aware_linc.tsv"))
  • Validation Check the variance stabilisation. It could be worse, considering we have a pool of lincRNAs.
meanSdPlot(log2(counts(dds)[!mcols(dds)$allZero,]+1))

meanSdPlot(log2(assay(zinb)+1))

meanSdPlot(vst[rowSums(vst)>0,])

meanSdPlot(vsta[rowSums(vsta)>0,]) 

3.4 QC on the normalised data

3.4.1 PCA

pc <- prcomp(t(vsta))
percent <- round(summary(pc)$importance[2,]*100)
  • Cumulative components effect

We define the number of variable of the model

nvar=1

And the number of possible combinations

nlevel=nlevels(dds$Stages)

We plot the percentage explained by the different components, the red line represent the number of variable in the model, the orange line the number of variable combinations.

ggplot(tibble(x=1:length(percent),y=cumsum(percent)),aes(x=x,y=y)) +
  geom_line() + scale_y_continuous("variance explained (%)",limits=c(0,100)) +
  scale_x_continuous("Principal component") + 
  geom_vline(xintercept=nvar,colour="red",linetype="dashed",size=0.5) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept=cumsum(percent)[nvar],colour="red",linetype="dashed",size=0.5) +
  geom_vline(xintercept=nlevel,colour="orange",linetype="dashed",size=0.5) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept=cumsum(percent)[nlevel],colour="orange",linetype="dashed",size=0.5)

3.4.2 2D

pc.dat <- bind_cols(PC1=pc$x[,1],
                    PC2=pc$x[,2],
                    csamples)

p <- ggplot(pc.dat,aes(x=PC1,y=PC2,col=dds$Stages,text=dds$ID)) + 
  geom_point(size=2) + 
  ggtitle("Principal Component Analysis",subtitle="variance stabilized counts")

ggplotly(p) %>% 
  layout(xaxis=list(title=paste("PC1 (",percent[1],"%)",sep="")),
         yaxis=list(title=paste("PC2 (",percent[2],"%)",sep="")))

3.4.3 Heatmap

Filter for noise

conds <- factor(csamples$Stages)
sels <- rangeFeatureSelect(counts=vsta,
                           conditions=conds,
                           nrep=3)
## Warning in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log): 1 y value <= 0 omitted from
## logarithmic plot

vst.cutoff <- 1
  • Heatmap of “all” genes
mar <- par("mar")

par(mar=c(0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05)) 
hm <- heatmap.2(t(scale(t(vsta[sels[[vst.cutoff+1]],]))),
                distfun=pearson.dist,
                hclustfun=function(X){hclust(X,method="ward.D2")},
                labRow = NA,trace = "none",
                labCol = conds,
                col=hpal)

plot(as.hclust(hm$colDendrogram),xlab="",sub="",labels=conds)

3.5 Conclusion

# The Biological QA is good, considering it's based on lincRNAs. We have no outliers. 
# The sequencing depth decreased comparing to the previous analysis.
# Looking at the PCA, it could be interesting to do DE analysis to see in particular what's going on
# in S3 and S6. I consider those two stages relevant, because I think things are changes here. 
# 

4 Session Info

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